Roar Book: Monkey Bridge by Lan Cao

5-4-3-2-1

5.Comments:

• My heart goes out to Mai because she had lost her mother; they supported each other and loved one another.
• I am glad that in the end Mai was able to go to college and further educated herself.
  
• Though Mai's mother died in the end I still feel like the ending was very good.
• This book has taught me a few things about my country that I never knew about.
  
• I would totally recommend this book for others to read; it's very intriguing and mysterious.

4.Questions:

• Where was Mai's mother's funeral?
• Did Mai attend the college that she had interviewed for?
• What was Mai's mother's last words?
• What does "supernatural ears" mean?

3.Vocabulary:

• Unexpendable: essential; absolutely required
• Lustrous: having luster; shining; luminous
• Silhouette: a two-dimensional representation of the outline of an object, as a cutout or configurational drawing, uniformly filled in with black, esp. a black-paper, miniature cutout of the outlines of a famous person's face

2.Literary Terms:

• Simile: "One wrong move, one wrong move, and the entire mess can just disarrange itself and collapse like a hundred pieces of flying metal for the whole world to see." (page 257)
• Simile: "Outside, a faint silver of what only two weeks ago had been a full moon dangled like a sea horse from the sky." (page 260)

1.Overview Sentence:

• The end of the book; Mai's mother had passed away and Mai went off to college.